Simon Smith – Curator/ Curatorial & Accessioning

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

The National Film and Sound Archive’s (NFSA) major digital exhibition Radio 100 launches a new chapter with Youthquake, which charts the rise of radio as a vital force in the emergence of youth culture in Australia.  

Youthquake highlights the transistor as the first go-anywhere form of media, enabling teenagers of the 1960s to leave the family wireless in the living room and become the first generation to personalise their listening experience. It was, says NFSA curator Simon Smith, ‘a pocket-sized rebellion against the conformity of gathering around a single device’. 

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Matt Woods – Perth Observatory

• James Webb Space Telescope images reveal "mind-blowing" new details in spiral galaxies
• Death Star-Shaped Moon of Saturn May be Hiding A Young Ocean Inside
• Memories of Perth Observatory's Greg Lowe 

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Music Quiz with Clyde Bevan, 11 February 2024

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Ming Johanson - Tech History

Computer memory has been the cornerstone of technological advancements, transforming from mechanical inventions to the complex digital systems we rely on today.

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Music Quiz with Clyde Bevan, 28 January 2024

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Josh Richards

History of Cave Diving 

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Ernie Manning  - Racing Historian

With Trainer Alan Mathews

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Courtney Walsh - Tennis Writer

Australian Open History

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 Anni Elward and Ming Johanson – Co Founders  Villainy Beauty

History of Beauty and Makeup

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Chris Frame - Cruise History

The Evolution of the Passenger Ship book is the new book. 

The book is our 17th and a long term project that was inspired by a popular lecture I present on the cruise ships and at maritime museums. 

1/ the origins of the passenger ship has ancient historical connections

2/ sail ruled the waves for centuries and it was abysmal for travelers. 

3/ steam brought great promise in the 1830s

4/ Regular steam services changes everything - reliability, safety etc. 

5/ shipping learns from maritime disasters. Eg: titanic, Lusitania. 

6/ jet age and containers kills passenger ships as they were - but cruising takes things to a new era!

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